Float fabric.



No. 873,378. PATENTED DEC. 10, 1907.

G. W., KNOX.

FLOAT PABRIG. APPLICATION TILED JULY 9. 190 0 GEORGE W. KNOX, OFPHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

FLOAT FABRIC.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 10, 1907. 1

Application filed July 9. 1906. Serial No. 325.218.

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, GEORGE W. KNOX, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of FloatFabrics, of which the following is a specification.

It is well known that fabrics of the order of madras, etc. have beenformed of warp and weft threads and warp floats which latter produceornamental effects on the fabric and are out orsheared off close to theterminals of said effects, the portions of the floats so cut or shearedoff being lost as warps or considered as waste.

The object of my invention is to utilize the floats employed to formsuch fabrics for the roduction of ornamental effects in a plurality offabrics. To this end I form in the same loom, two blank fabrics of warpand weft threads and float threads and as each fabric is being made Irun the float threads employed to produce figures or figured effects onone fabric to the opposite fabric where they areemployed to producefigures or figured effects 1n the latter and then return to againproduce figures or figured effects on the first narrow fabric and so thework continues, the float threads between the fabrics being duly cut,thus separating the two fabrics, while the float threads at theterminals of the figures or figured effects on the fabrics are dulytrimmed said figures or effects being those of the float threads throwninto the fabrics.

Figures 1 and 2 represent face views of a plurality of fabrics embodyingmy invention. ig. 3 represents 'a horizontal section of a portion of thetwo'fabrics on an enlarged scale in the course of manufacture. Fig. 4 reresents a view of a portion of one of the fa rics showing float threadshaving been employed to form a float figure or figured.

effect in said fabric and to be thrown into the opposite fabric to forma float figure or figured effect therein.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in thefigures.

Referring to the drawings :-A and B designate two pieces of fabricproduced in accordance with my invention, each of the same beingproduced of Warp threads 0, weft threads D and float wefts E, the latterbeing adapted to form the figures or figured effects F,

In carrying out my invention, I form two fabrics in the same loom asblanks, each composed of warp threads 0, weft threads D, which effectsmay be different. I employ a jacquard whereby the float wefts, afterformin a figure or figured effect, as at F, on the fa ric are passed tothe fabric B where they are woven in said fabric B to form the figure orfigured efiect F, after which they are again passed to the fabric A andwoven with'the latter to form another figure or figured effect as at F,it being evident that the jac uard may be so operated as to produce dierent patterns of figures or figured.

effects in the two fabrics or the same patterns, it being noticed thatthe float wefts instead of being cut off and lost as threads orconsidered as waste are utilized to form the figures or. figured effectsof the two fabrics, as has been stated. The small ortions of the floatwefts between the two fa rics are cut or severed thus dividing thefabrics, said portions then being trimmed at the terminals of thefigures or figured effects, thus finishing the latter and the twofabrics as such are completed, there having been a great saving in themanufacture of the two fabrics in stock and time.

' Having thus described my invention,

what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: I 1. Afabric blank composed of a plurality of fabrics, each having a plainfigured surface produced from warp and weft threads and oating wefts,the latter extending from one fabric to the other and woven with thewarp and weft threads to produce figures upon one fabric only at a time.

2. A fabric blank composed of a plurality of fabrics, each having aplain figured surface produced from warp and weft threads and floatingwefts, the latter extending from one fabric to the other and woven withthe Warp and weft threads to produce figures u on one fabric only at atime, said floating we ts joining .the two fabrics and extended at rightangles to the Warp threads.

- GEORGE W. KNOX.

Witnesses:

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S. R. CARR.

